From ERP at the Baltic Shipyard to autonomous AI agents

Experience by employer

1. 2025 — present · Kaliningrad, remote

   Independent AI Engineer

   Solo / chukhaldin.ru
   • My own AI systems running 24/7: trading infrastructure, growth pipelines, OSINT toolkit
   • Five of my own servers in four countries: systemd + nginx + Cloudflare + an encrypted WireGuard mesh
   • AI adoption and process automation for small and medium business (from 2026) — built on top of my own production stack
   • Mobile + backend + AI + media-buying in one person
2. 2024 — Mar 2026 · Remote · team in Moscow

   Senior Media-Buyer · Middle Media-Buyer

   Two media-buying teams (names under NDA)
   • $1.34M ad budget in performance marketing, $379k net profit, average ROI 28%
   • First team, Middle (until Nov 2025): $695k budget, ROI 31.5%, PWAs for Android and iOS, ads in 30+ countries
   • Second team, Senior (Sep 2025 — Mar 2026): $646k budget, average ROI ~24.8%, e-com landing pages
   • Built my own tooling: automated campaign launch via Graph API, competitor ad collectors, GPT classifiers
   • ~300 creatives in Final Cut, A/B tests on large budgets
3. Nov 2023 — Feb 2025 · Bulgaria · EU market

   Software Developer

   Asertiva Solutions
   • Custom applications on Infor Factory Track + Mongoose (Visual Basic .NET)
   • Custom sessions in Infor LN Studio (BAAN 4gl)
   • SQL optimization of legacy code, refactoring of production logic
   • Direct communication with foreign clients on technical questions
   Enterprise clients

   FerrariAston MartinKozloduy NPP (Bulgaria)RosatomOSK (United Shipbuilding Corp)+ dozens of plants in RU / EU / Middle East

   Dozens of tickets and custom Infor LN solutions for enterprise clients in EU, RU and CIS
4. Nov 2022 — Nov 2023 · Turkey · IT consulting

   Software Developer

   IPL Consulting
   • Learned Infor Factory Track, Mongoose, Birst
   • Infor LN customization for client tasks (BAAN 4gl)
   • Reports and analytics on Infor Birst
   • In parallel — many developments for Russian plants, on-site visits
   • Developing sessions for any manufacturing task
5. Jul 2021 — Sep 2022 · St. Petersburg · Shipbuilding

   Lead Software Engineer

   Baltic Shipyard
   • Infor LN Studio + BAAN 4gl: custom sessions for manufacturing
   • Materials logistics, production planning, warehouse accounting
   • Reports on IBM Cognos Reporter
   • SQL optimization for multi-shop queries on large volumes
6. May 2020 — Oct 2020 · Online · US/CA/UK/AU

   Founder

   Enchantment Deal (Shopify)
   • Shopify store profitable from day one
   • First experience with Facebook Ads, Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel
   • Email/SMS marketing, supplier management, fulfillment
   • Final Cut Pro for ad creatives
7. Oct 2017 — Jul 2021 · St. Petersburg · Shipbuilding

   Engineer, 1st category

   Baltic Shipyard
   • Multi-level schedules in Primavera P6 Professional
   • Labor cost analytics, network schedule adjustments
   • Training workshop staff on Progress Reporter
   • ETL Excel ↔ Primavera, building formulas for manufacturing accounting
8. Jun 2017 — Jul 2019 · St. Petersburg · Electrical

   CEO

   ES-Energo LLC
   • Electrical installation work at the Zenit-Arena venue
   • Team management, output control, reporting

The same path told as one story — in the essay “From factory ERP to production AI”: 9 years of engineering across three countries, and what it actually takes for a system to keep running.

University degrees and professional courses

Stack I work with